The JooJoo tablet (nee Crunchpad) has had a long and ignominious history too storied to get into in much detail here. Let’s just say, though, that even though the JooJoo beat the iPad to market, it sold as abysmally as it was reviewed.

You might expect the guys behind JooJoo to be ready to call it quits at this point, but not so: they’ve just announced that they intend to take the lessons they learned with the first JooJoo and apply them to a second-gen tablet to be released sometime in 2011.

What’ll be different in the second generation? Well, the guys at JooJoo say it’ll be “based” on Android, but not actually be and Android tablet. That’s a bit confusing, so here’s what that functionally means: while the Android operating system is free for any device manufacturer to use, OEMs still need to pay Google to use their services like Android Marketplace. The guys at JooJoo aren’t willing to pay Google for that, so the JooJoo 2 is going to arrive gimped compared to other Android tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The JooJoo guys don’t think this is a big deal, though, because they think what tablets need right now is an optimized operating system… specifically, one that unifies things like email and social networking into one interface.

To be honest, it’s pretty hard to do anything but snicker at the prospect of a JooJoo 2. JooJoo’s first tablet got a lot of press — mostly due to scandal — but it wasn’t able to translate that publicity into sales, and no wonder: it was a terrible device, especially compared to the iPad. With no Android Marketplace, the JooJoo 2 looks to be a similar disaster.